No broken beans what is the secret?

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Northwest Javas post in my erlier question about post or pre roast blending at home has led me to ask another question.
Many years ago when was at Uni- I worked as a barista in the university coffee shop. We got our beans from a roasting company in Melbourne. The coffee beans were nearly nearly always perfect. By this I mean not broken or in pieces. Just the other day I was looking inside a can of Ily coffee from Italy. I was surprised to see a number of broken beans. When I roast at home I try to remove the broken beans after I roast. Is there a right or wrong in this. Northwest Java seems to indicate he hates broken beans. How about the rest of the roasters? :)
 

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before we had hire meanjoebean to be our second shift roaster we had a local roaster roasting our flavor base. They looked horrible...had to throw out a lot of it. See their cooling bin had dents and dips in it . When the cooling arms would spin they would crush the beans as it cooled...it isn't a nice presentation when you are selling coffee for $10 and up a lb.!
 

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correct me if I'm wrong....but doesn't a lot of that have to do with the qualiy of Green beans you/your roaster are using in a lot of instances?

I know that I have been roasting 10-20 lbs per week, and I see some beans are awesome, and seems the final product is usually better looking as well....not always, but usually.

My 2 cents on it.


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that could also be it...but in our case it was the cooling bin...We are using the same coffee now, just a different roaster...no broken beans.
 
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